Illinois Democrats Ignore Obama on Gerrymandering – Opinion – Wall Street Journal*

Dan McConchie (R-Lake Zurich), minority leader of the Illinois Senate: He called for nonpartisan mapmaking. Five years later, Illinois Democrats seem to have forgotten Mr. Obama’s admonition. With majorities in both houses of the General Assembly, they are preparing to ram through a new partisan state legislative map. More brazenly, they plan to do it without even consulting the most accurate data set that every unit of government traditionally uses when drawing such maps—the decennial census.